Saturday, July 3, 2010

Breaking News: This weekend, protestors in Winnipeg and Toronto will
confront Elizabeth Windsor, aka "Queen of England", with an unanswered
letter asking that she identify the fate of aboriginal children under
her care:

The Strange Story of
the Queen and the Children Who 'Disappeared'

Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:08

Signed
statement by survivor witness followed by copy of letter already given
to the Queen in January, 2008 by residential school survivors in Canada.

Statement of William
Arnold Combes

I
am an Interior Salish spirit dancer and am 58 years old. I live in
Vancouver, Canada.

I
am a survivor of the Kamloops and Mission Indian residential schools,
both run by the Roman Catholic church. I suffered terrible tortures
there at the hands especially of Brother Murphy, who killed at least two
children. I witnessed him throw a child off a three story balcony to her
death. He put me on a rack and broke some of my bones, in the Kamloops
school basement, after I tried running away.

I
also saw him and another priest burying a child in the school orchard
one night.

In
September 1964 when I was 12 years old, I was an inmate at the Kamloops
school and we were visited by the Queen of England and Prince Phillip. I
remember it was strange because they came by themselves, no big fanfare
or nothing. But I recognized them and the school principal told us it
was the Queen and we all got given new clothes and good food for the
first time in months the day before she arrived.

The day she got to the school, I was part of a group of kids that went
on a picnic with the Queen and her husband and school officials, down to
a meadow near Dead Man's Creek. After awhile, I saw the Queen leave that
picnic with ten children from the school, and those children never
returned. We never heard anything more about them and never saw them
again even when we were older. They were all from around there but they
all vanished.

The group that disappeared was seven boys and three girls, in age from
six to fourteen years old. I don't remember their names, just an
occasional first name like Cecilia and there was an Edward.

What happened was also witnessed by my friend George Adolph, who was 11
years old at the time and a student there too.

Elizabeth Windsor, the Queen of England, was issued a Letter of
Demand yesterday that requires that she identify the fate and burial
sites of all the children who died in Indian Residential Schools
established under the authority of the Church of England and the British
Crown.

The Letter was handed personally to Governor-General Michaelle Jean by
aboriginal elder Carol Martin at the Downtown Eastside Womens' Centre in
Vancouver in the afternoon of Wednesday, January 23. Ms. Martin asked
the Governor-General to deliver the Letter of Demand to the Queen on
behalf of residential school survivors, and the Governor-General
accepted the Letter and assured her that she would.

As a Common Law Notice, the Letter requires that the Queen comply with
the request to identify the grave sites and cause of death of these
children within thirty days, or face possible legal action.

"The buck stops at Buckingham Palace" commented another aboriginal elder
and residential school survivor. "The Queen, and the Pope, are the ones
responsible for the genocide their government and churches did to my
people. She has to be held accountable. She has the power to help bring
our children home, finally."

In recent weeks, similar Letters of Demand have been issued to officials
of the Canadian government and the Catholic, Anglican and United Church
of Canada by residential school survivors. Karl Ratzinger, Pontiff of
the Roman Catholic Church, is scheduled to be issued a similar Letter of
Demand soon.

A national press conference to announce the next stage in this Truth
Campaign will be held on Monday, February 4 at 10:00 am outside the
Prime Minister's Office at 80 Wellington street in Ottawa. Organizer
Kevin Annett (Eagle Strong Voice) will be present at this event.

Public Notice

Letter of
demand from the Elders and Members of the Friends and Relatives of the
Disappeared

23rd January
2008

To:
Elizabeth Windsor, aka "Queen of Great Britain"

Buckingham
Palace

London,
England

(Transmitted
through the office and person of Michaelle Jean, Governor-General of
Canada)

Dear Ms. Windsor,

This Public Letter of Demand is issued to you, Elizabeth Windsor, as one
who claims the title and fiduciary responsibility of Queen of Great
Britain and the Commonwealth, and Head of the Church of England in
Canada, aka the Anglican Church.

We, as the friends and relatives of tens of thousands of children who
died or were murdered in Indian Residential Schools in Canada
established and run by your Church of England and the British Crown from
1867 to 1996, do hereby demand that you, Elizabeth Windsor, in your
capacity of Queen of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, and head of the
Church of England, publicly disclose the cause of death and whereabouts
of the buried remains, of all children who died in Indian Residential
Schools operated by the Church of England in Canada, aka the Anglican
Church.

This Common law Notice also requires that you, Elizabeth Windsor.
arrange the immediate repatriation without conditions of the remains of
these persons to their holes for a proper burial.

This Common Law Notice also requires that you, Elizabeth Windsor,
publicly name and surrender all persons in or employed by the Government
of Canada and the Anglican Church who are responsible for or complicit
in these deaths and disappearances, and all documents and evidence
related to the same.

This Common Law Notice also requires that you, Elizabeth
Windsor, compel Canada through its Governor-General to comply with these
requirements of natural justice and international law.

If you, Elizabeth Windsor, fail to comply with these requirements within
thirty(30) days of you receiving this notice through the medium of the
Governor-General of Canada, it will be assumed that you do not dispute
these claims contained herein, and legal action may be commenced against
you.

Sincerely

Jeremiah
Jourdain

on behalf of
the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared

issued under
the Tribal Land Law Jurisdiction of the Squamish Nation on unceded
Squamish Territory

Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this
website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org , and watch Kevin's award-winning
documentary film UNREPENTANT on the same website.

UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
- Winner, Best Foreign Documentary Film, Los Angeles Independent Film
Festival, March 2007, Best Director of a Foreign Documentary, New York
Independent Film Festival, October 2006
- Winner, Best Canadian Film, Creation Aboriginal Film Festival,
Edmonton, 2009

“Kevin is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have
received it in the past.”
- Dr. Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"As a long time front line worker with the Elders' Council at the
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, I stand behind what Kevin Annett is
trying to do for our people. The genocide that continues today and which
stemmed from the residential schools needs to be exposed. Kevin Annett
helps break the silence, and brings the voice of our people all over the
world."
Carol Muree Martin - Spirit Tree Woman
Nisgaa Nation

"I gave Kevin Annett his Indian name, Eagle Strong Voice, in 2004 when I
adopted him into our Anishinabe Nation. He carries that name proudly
because he is doing the job he was sent to do, to tell his people of
their wrongs. He speaks strongly and with truth. He speaks for our
stolen and murdered children. I ask everyone to listen to him and
welcome him."
Chief Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind
Elder, Turtle Clan, Anishinabe Nation
Winnipeg, Manitoba